A U.S. judge has blocked Biden's new sweeping student loan forgiveness plan before his administration could even roll it out. What borrowers need to know.
  • reddig33@lemmy.world
    432·
    2 months ago

    Just. Zero. The. Interest.

    Stop with all these convoluted piecemeal plans. Just get someone like Fannie Mae to buy up all the loans made before 2014, and then zero out the interest on remaining payments.

  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    2 months ago

    Heave, ho
    All together
    Hoist the colors high

    Seriously, fuck these fucks.
    We’re gonna have to band together just to get some fucken civil services around here.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    2 months ago

    This is like a sitcom husband calling a restaurant on Valentines afternoon for an appointment, obviously getting turned away, and then claiming to the sitcom wife it’s not his fault and she has to now pretend that he took her out to a fancy dinner after she cooks for him with zero notice.

    Because he tried.

    With a bare minimum of effort, knowing it wouldnt work.

    If you know a woman in that situation in real life, you’d explain what gaslighting is.

    But for some reason we still can’t criticize Biden, because he’s not trump, even tho he’s also not running.

    Almost like neoliberals will always scream and moan that there’s some bullshit reason you can’t judge their strategies when they never work. They want us to just keep beating our head against a wall, because when Republicans win, so do the corporations that donate to them and neoliberals.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      493·
      2 months ago

      You’re misrepresenting the context.

      Republicans are jurisdiction-shopping to find the most regressive and conservative judges they can find, and filing the cases there.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        328·
        2 months ago

        Republicans are jurisdiction-shopping to find the most regressive and conservative judges they can find, and filing the cases there.

        They’ve been doing that for decades…

        Why do you and Biden think they were just gonna not?

        Like, you think Republicans will just voluntarily stop using a loophole so we don’t have to bother trying to close it?

        • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
          282·
          2 months ago

          The GOP will always find some new way to fuck up the system. That’s basically what they do now, sabotage the political system to maintain undue control. Not even pre-existing Supreme Court precedents are respected anymore, the right to vote is under attack from countless sides, wrenches get thrown in everywhere …

          But you complain that the Democrats still try to get things done and at least expose the sad the state of our failing system rather than just waiting around for bulletproof golden opportunities that are somehow beyond the reach of all this fuckery.

          • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
            217·
            2 months ago

            But you complain that the Democrats still try to get things done

            Nope, I’m saying they’ll throw out a half-assed attempt and say “we tried”

            But they’re not trying.

            Like at the complete inaction over decades with the SC since you brought them up.

            • fluxion@lemmy.worldEnglish
              151·
              2 months ago

              So bi-partisan country-wide reform of how cases are assigned along with enforceable ethics codes banning partisanship that all states agree to so that federal appeals are not needed and a Supreme Court overhaul on top before we even attempt to do anything other than bend over for MAGA activists who are passing regressive shady bills at an alarming rate…

              Good luck with that.

    • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
      281·
      2 months ago

      What a load of horseshit.

      There was nothing unconstitutional about the first executive action to cancel student debt. Such action was explicitly permitted by the HEROES Act, and only a bad-faith interpretation by an illegitimate court consisting of corrupt justices was able to find otherwise.

      And there’s nothing wrong with this attempt, either. It’s just that Conservatives don’t want the government helping people in an election year. Debt cancellation is universally popular and only negatively impacts the politicians who aren’t in favor.

    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
      141·
      2 months ago

      Congress (i.e. the GOP) won’t budge on this issue and this is at least the 3rd attempt he’s made to forgive loans. Only thing left to do is invoke his “King powers” to do it anyway.

      • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        The Court granted immunity to prosecution (which is fucking insane) but that doesn’t actually give him the ability to forgive all debts. If a court says “no, the debt isn’t canceled” and the debt is still on the books somewhere, the problem remains unsolved. About the only way he can use presidential immunity to fix the problem would be to take out the judges that are blocking it.

        • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 months ago

          The courts don’t control the ledger, the executive does. Biden would likely have to apply downward pressure to get some random employee with access to delete the debt records. At worst they’d get prosecuted federally and Biden would pardon them.

    • Billiam@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 months ago

      Well since you’re yet again blaming the Democrats for problems created by Republicans, how would you solve the problem of student loans in a way that would help Americans and would also get past the GOP?